Declare Endless War & Grant Yourself Extraordinary Powers for the Duration

[Stephanie]

Then declare that every illegal thing you're doing is proper and necessary, but refuse to let anyone verify that what you say is true.

Voila! You're the King!

It's so easy, why didn't anyone think of this before?

"The NSA program is one that listens to a few numbers," the president told reporters after visiting with 51 wounded troops and their families at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

"In other words, the enemy is calling somebody and we want to know who they're calling and why," he said before returning to Washington.

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"This is a limited program designed to prevent attacks on the United States of America and, I repeat, limited," Bush said. "I think most Americans understand the need to find out what the enemy's thinking."

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=bush/v=2/SID=w/l=NSR/R=4/SIG=12equfpra/EXP=1136380036/*-http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060103/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_15

[ComerPerro]

1. My friends laughed when I told them in late September of 2001

that Bush would use this newly declared "War on Terror" to win Congress in 2002, win re-election in 2004, and give himself unlimited and unquestioned power. I also said that the War would go on as long as Bush and the GOP need it to.

They laughed, said that I was being paranoid and that the American people weren't nearly that stupid.

And I take no pride or joy in being right in this matter.

[Stephanie]

4. It's quite a scam.

Declare war on an idea, then make yourself all-powerful unti the war is won, as determined by YOU. Genius!

[RC]

2. NSA is no ordinary spy shop

Other views: NSA is no ordinary spy shop
By Dudley C. Wells
none - 01/03/2006

When I heard Vice-President Dick Cheney say that the administration was eavesdropping on American citizens “to protect their civil liberties,” my gut reaction was: “Big Brother is watching you.”

The eavesdropper is no ordinary wiretapper – it is the National Security Agency, the Puzzle Palace, the master of decoding, with some of the world’s largest computers. It is an Orwellian Cold War relic that honed its surveillance skills by electronically peeping through the Iron Curtain for 40 years.

NSA has at its disposal reconnaissance aircraft, ships, submarines and satellites, as well as a vast array of antenna farms and listening posts to pick up radio signals from anywhere on the globe. It can intercept any frequency and record, download, demultiplex, decode and translate virtually anything humans can transmit. Where it operates, there is no such thing as privacy.

>SNIP<

Wells, Moorhead, was a Russian translator in the U.S. Air Force. He also flew on long-range reconnaissance missions against Soviet Bloc targets in the 1960s, gathering data, which was used by intelligence agencies, including the NSA.


http://www.in-forum.com/articles/printer.cfm?id=113145
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=113145§ion=Opinion

[zbdent]

3. Who here believes that there actually will be elections in

2008? (Well, if the electronic voting machines are stopped . . .)

[Stephanie]

5. If they go after Iran they might be able to stop elections

If they ignite the tinderbox that might do it.